When you’re questioning what it takes to be one of many High 100 Legal professionals in Arizona for 2021, consultants say you may need to begin eager about what you can provide as a substitute of what you will get.
“Give 110 % on daily basis,” says Andrew Abraham, president and shareholder at Burch & Cracchiolo and the 2020 Az Enterprise Angel of the 12 months, which was given to him for his philanthropic work. “Be accessible even once you suppose you might be too busy.”
Abraham is amongst this yr’s High 100 Legal professionals in Arizona. The celebrated group is chosen by Az Enterprise journal’s editorial crew in collaboration with trade consultants. The attorneys have been chosen from a pool of greater than 2,000 of the state’s most gifted and profitable attorneys. Picks are primarily based on every lawyer’s skilled success and rankings, influence on his or her regulation agency, influence on the communities she/he serves and influence on the authorized occupation.
Have you learnt an legal professional who ought to be thought of for the 2022 listing? E mail Editor in Chief Michael Gossie at michael.gossie@azbigmedia.com.
Listed here are the High 100 Legal professionals in Arizona for 2021 — in alphabetical order — as chosen by the editorial board of Az Enterprise journal and authorized trade consultants.
Andrew Abraham
President and shareholder | Burch & Cracchiolo
Apply areas: Actual property regulation, actual property litigation, industrial litigation
Background: Abraham, Burch & Cracchiolo’s president, is licensed as a Actual Property Specialist by the Arizona Board of Authorized Specialization and has been listed in Finest Legal professionals in America for Actual Property Transactions since 2008 and in each version of Southwest Tremendous Legal professionals. Within the 2011 and 2014-2020 editions, Abraham was voted among the many High 50 Legal professionals in Arizona by his friends. He’s included amongst Arizona’s Most interesting Legal professionals and is an AV Preeminent 5.0 out of 5 peer overview rated legal professional in Martindale-Hubbell. Az Enterprise Angels named Abraham because the 2020 Az Enterprise Angel of the 12 months.
Contact: aabraham@bcattorneys.com
Amy Abdo
Director | Fennemore Craig
Apply areas: Enterprise litigation, healthcare, employment and labor, skilled legal responsibility
Thomas H. Allen
Member | Allen Barnes & Jones
Apply areas: Chapter, chapter trustee rights, enterprise and shopper debtor chapter, company reorganization, collectors’ rights in chapter, mediation and arbitration, industrial litigation
Ann-Martha Andrews
Shareholder | Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart
Apply areas: Insurance coverage protection and unhealthy religion litigation in state and federal courts all through the Ninth and Tenth Circuits
Laurent Badoux
Shareholder | Buchalter
Apply areas: Labor and employment, commerce secrets and techniques and worker mobility
Background: Badoux focuses his observe on employment and labor regulation, with an emphasis on compensation and worker relations recommendation. He has a broad vary of litigation expertise that features dealing with a number of the largest collective and sophistication actions in Arizona, collective bargaining settlement arbitration, discrimination lawsuits, restrictive covenant enforcement and injunction, and the protection of administrative expenses involving numerous state and federal companies throughout america. Badoux has suggested home and worldwide purchasers in a wide range of industries, together with retail and companies, hospitality, transportation, trades, governmental affairs, monetary companies, mining, oil and gasoline, sanitation, know-how, medical units, well being care, and protection contracting. He’s additionally a member of the board of administrators for Arizona Autism United.
Contact: lbadoux@buchalter.com
Shayna H. Balch
Companion | Fisher & Phillips
Apply areas: Wage and hour regulation, employment discrimination and harassment, Individuals with Disabilities Act, employment insurance policies and procedures, appellate observe, labor and employment litigation, litigation of employment disputes
John J. Balitis
Chair, Labor & Employment | Jennings, Strouss & Salmon
Apply areas: Employment and labor relations, enterprise litigation, building, healthcare litigation and regulation, mediation and arbitration
Background: Balitis is a labor and employment regulation practitioner with over 30 years of expertise representing purchasers in Arizona in addition to in Colorado. He often represents events in a broad vary of administrative proceedings and litigates in each federal and state courts, the place he has bench, jury trial, and appellate expertise. Balitis additionally serves as an arbitrator and mediator for the American Arbitration Affiliation.
Attraction to trade: “I wasn’t vivid sufficient to deal with pre-med, so regulation appeared like a great various on the time. Probably the most shocking facet of the observe is that it entails simply as a lot collaboration and partnering with purchasers because it does offering authorized recommendation.”
Contact: jbalitis@jsslaw.com
Dorothy B. Baran
Shareholder | Could, Potenza, Baran & Gillespie
Apply areas: Actual property, enterprise planning and company regulation, industrial landlord and tenant regulation, labor and employment regulation, mediation and arbitration
Hilary L. Barnes
Member | Allen Barnes & Jones
Apply areas: Company and shopper chapter
Kira N. Barrett
Companion | Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani
Apply areas: Business litigation, building, insurance coverage, product and basic legal responsibility, employment regulation
Becky A. Bartness
Shareholder | Wilenchick & Bartness
Apply areas: Actual property, industrial, banking and environmental regulation, and industrial mediation
Timothy J. Berg
Director | Fennemore Craig
Apply areas: Civil appeals, state constitutional and public regulation, public information regulation and public utilities regulation
Steven N. Berger
Shareholder | Engelman Berger
Apply areas: Chapter and reorganization, creditor’s rights, mortgage exercises, enterprise restructurings, enterprise and actual property disputes, mediation
Steve Biddle
Shareholder | Littler
Apply areas: Discrimination and harassment, office security and well being, labor-management relations, wage and hour issues
William D. Bishop
Founder | Bishop Legislation Workplace
Apply areas: Household regulation
Jodi Bohr
Shareholder | Tiffany & Bosco P.A.
Apply areas: Employment and labor, civil litigation
Daniel L. Bonnett
Companion | Martin & Bonnett
Apply areas: Employment discrimination, retaliation, wrongful discharge and different points
Neal H. Bookspan
Shareholder | Jaburg | Wilk
Apply areas: Employment, actual property and construction-related issues
Max Ok. Boyer
Legal professional at regulation | Boyer Bohn
Apply areas: Tax regulation and trusts and estates
James E. Brophy
Managing shareholder | Ryley Carlock & Applewhite
Apply areas: Enterprise transactions and authorized compliance for for-profit and nonprofit companies
Stephen Brower
Managing associate | Brentwood Legislation Group
Apply areas: Enterprise, actual property, healthcare, securities, creditor and chapter primarily based litigation
Garland Brown
Co-founder | Weiss Brown
Apply areas: Begin-up and rising companies, basic counsel, mental property
Timothy D. Brown
Shareholder | Gallagher & Kennedy
Apply areas: Federal tax regulation, with an emphasis on partnerships, restricted legal responsibility firms, C and S firms, actual property, and civil tax controversy
Background: Brown is a member of the Gallagher & Kennedy board of administrators and head of the agency’s Tax Legislation observe. For greater than 30 years, Brown has centered his observe in all areas of federal tax regulation, with an emphasis on partnerships, restricted legal responsibility firms, C and S firms, actual property, and civil tax controversy. He offers tax planning, structuring and documentation for enterprise and particular person purchasers, together with joint ventures and tax-exempt organizations. Since 2007, Brown has been persistently acknowledged as a Finest Lawyer by Finest Legal professionals in America, and has earned the Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent Peer Evaluate Ranking.
Contact: tdb@gknet.com
Rebecca Lynne Burnham
Of counsel | Greenberg Traurig
Apply areas: Acquisition, planning, growth, financing, operation and sale of actual property developments of every type with an emphasis on grasp plans and mixed-use growth
Brian A. Cabianca
Companion | Squire Patton Boggs
Apply areas: Enterprise litigation, with an emphasis on breach of contract, fraud, interference with enterprise benefit, breach of fiduciary responsibility, commerce secrets and techniques, securities, banking, noncompete agreements, defamation and mental property
Flavia Campbell
Companion | Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie
Apply areas: Logos and copyrights
Sheila Carmody
Companion | Snell & Wilmer
Apply areas: Advanced litigation with an emphasis on protection of insurance coverage firms and producers in school motion circumstances, multi-jurisdictional litigation and basic industrial litigation
Susan E. Chetlin
Of counsel | Burch & Cracchiolo
Apply areas: Mental property, patent regulation
Background: Considered one of Az Enterprise journal’s Most Influential Ladies of 2020, Chetlin is a registered patent legal professional and mental property legal professional with a Martindale Hubbell AV Preeminent ranking – the best ranking accessible. She has labored at huge corporations, boutique corporations, and as in-house counsel and attracts on all that have in approaching mental property safety from a enterprise standpoint. Earlier than becoming a member of Burch & Cracchiolo, Chetlin had her personal IP boutique agency which was acknowledged as a Tier 1 Finest Legislation Agency after simply three years. Chetlin has represented purchasers in all kinds of companies and industries, together with mining, tools restore and manufacturing, robotics, insulation, geospatial applied sciences, autonomous methods, supplies dealing with and transportation, armor and on-line companies.
Contact: schetlin@bcattorneys.com
John A. Conley
Shareholder | Milligan Lawless
Apply areas: Illustration of physicians, doctor teams, and healthcare organizations in a wide range of litigation issues akin to contract-based claims, shareholder disputes, payor/supplier disputes and enterprise torts
Jennifer Cranston
Shareholder | Gallagher & Kennedy
Apply areas: Condemnation and valuation, insurance coverage, public utilities
Background: Cranston focuses her observe in three main areas: actual property disputes involving condemnation and valuation points; insurance coverage protection evaluation and unhealthy religion litigation; and public utility regulation. Jennifer’s goal is to offer sound authorized recommendation, distinctive service, and cost-effective decision for all her purchasers. She has efficiently negotiated favorable settlements at hearings, in arbitrations, at trial, and on attraction. Cranston’s trial expertise has resulted in two of the most important condemnation verdicts within the historical past of Arizona.
Attraction to trade: “I feel I watched an excessive amount of TV courtroom drama as a baby. What amazes me most is that the true lifetime of a lawyer is nothing just like the reveals I grew up watching, however I like it anyway.”
Contact: jennifer.cranston@gknet.com
Shawn M. Cunningham
Managing associate | Harris Powers & Cunningham
Apply areas: Medical malpractice, private damage, wrongful demise
Susan Dana-Kobey
Shareholder | Burch & Cracchiolo
Apply areas: Household Legislation and civil litigation
Background: Dana-Kobey handles all points of divorce and household regulation issues at Burch & Cracchiolo. Her strategy along with her purchasers is to advocate for you in probably the most constructive and forthright method. Dana-Kobey lived in Argentina as a baby and is fluent in Spanish. Whereas dwelling in Argentina, she traveled usually to Brazil to go to household and in addition discovered to talk Portuguese. Her multilingual proficiency led Dana-Kobey to volunteer by aiding Spanish-speaking people on the Household Courtroom Facilitator’s Workplace in Orange County, California. Dana-Kobey additionally labored as a Spanish translator within the telecommunications trade. She additionally handles civil litigation issues, representing purchasers in circumstances involving critical private damage, wrongful demise, merchandise legal responsibility, negligence, premises legal responsibility and building issues.
Contact: sdana-kobey@bcattorneys.com
John E. DeWulf
Companion | Coppersmith Brockelman
Apply areas: Contracts, enterprise torts, commerce secrets and techniques, actual property, securities, mental property, skilled malpractice, officer and director legal responsibility, and merchandise
John Alan Doran
Member | Sherman & Howard
Apply areas: Labor and employment, litigation, trials, appeals
William W. Drury
Shareholder | Renaud Cook dinner Drury Mesaros
Apply areas: Business and enterprise litigation, medical malpractice and healthcare litigation, skilled legal responsibility litigation, building litigation, product legal responsibility litigation
Matthew P. Feeney
Phoenix agency chair | Snell & Wilmer
Apply areas: Mergers and acquisitions, securities choices, SEC reporting and compliance, and company governance issues
Susan M. Freeman
Companion | Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie
Apply areas: Enterprise chapter and on appeals of every kind
Candace French
Affiliate legal professional | Sacks Tierney
Apply areas: Indian regulation, municipal regulation, authorities relations
Paul D. Friedman
Shareholder | Burg Simpson Eldredge Hersh & Jardine
Apply areas: Private damage, wrongful demise, ethics, {and professional} malpractice
Jonathan Frutkin
Principal | Radix Law
Apply areas: Enterprise regulation and industrial litigation
Background: Because the founder and principal of Radix Legislation, Frutkin has vital expertise as an legal professional, a enterprise govt, and enterprise proprietor. Over the course of his profession, he has owned a web site design enterprise, a software program firm, an actual property growth firm, and served because the developer for a nationwide ice cream chain.
Attraction to trade: “Probably the most shocking factor I’ve discovered all through my profession as a enterprise legal professional is that you’ve very smart enterprise house owners — however they wrestle to know sure authorized ideas. That is the place the Radix Legislation agency is available in as a basic counsel for rent. We will help companies with not solely authorized challenges, but in addition enterprise alternatives.”
Contact: jfrutkin@radixlaw.com
Garrick L. Gallagher
Proprietor and director | Sanders & Parks
Apply areas: Private damage, mass torts, insurance coverage litigation and protection
Roxann Gallagher
Shareholder | Sacks Tierney
Apply areas: Public and industrial finance, Indian regulation and tribal relations, enterprise and company regulation
Lauren L. Garner
Companion | Jaburg Wilk
Apply areas: Probate and belief litigation and mediation
John T. Gilbert
Companion | Radix Law
Apply areas: Business litigation, enterprise and actual property regulation and enterprise acquisitions
Background: Gilbert has a long time of expertise in negotiating complicated transactions, contracts and leases, particularly within the area of actual property. He has represented purchasers from each space of the true property market, together with house owners, builders, basic contractors, and bankers. Gilbert is an “AV” rated legal professional underneath Martindale-Hubbell’s peer overview course of. He beforehand was energetic within the Maricopa County Bar Affiliation’s Persevering with Authorized Schooling Committee, which he chaired within the late Nineteen Eighties. He additionally was a co-editor of the Arizona Litigation Information, Second Version, printed in 1993. He’s a member of the State Bar of Arizona, the Maricopa County Bar Affiliation, the Scottsdale Bar Affiliation and the American Bar Affiliation.
Contact: gilbert@radixlaw.com
J. Phillip Glasscock
Supervisor | Guidant Legislation Agency
Apply areas: Enterprise transactions, litigation and property planning
Background: With greater than 35 years of expertise, Glasscock has a easy mission at Guidant: assist purchasers make cash and hold it. Rated AV-Preeminent by Martindale-Hubbell, Glasscock approaches enterprise illustration in a different way than many different attorneys. He usually begins with ascertaining the shopper’s exit technique and different long-term plans so that each one efforts are designed to realize lasting success. Likewise, Glasscock’s strategy with property planning purchasers is targeted on expediency and effectivity with the purpose of “making it simple” in all respects. His shopper roster has included public firms and three generations of household house owners of personal firms. He has labored with producers, worldwide distributors, skilled companies corporations and family-owned companies.
Contact: jpg@guidant.law
Benjamin Gottlieb
Founding associate | MacQueen & Gottlieb
Apply areas: Actual property, enterprise, industrial circumstances
Alisa J. Grey
Shareholder | Tiffany & Bosco
Apply areas: Probate and belief litigation, property administration, elder regulation and mediation
Melissa S. Ho
Shareholder and observe co-chair | Polsinelli
Apply areas: Antitrust; antitrust – healthcare; compliance (fraud and abuse, stark); monetary and securities litigation; monetary know-how (FinTech) and regulation; authorities investigations; healthcare litigation; inner investigations; worldwide; litigation and dispute decision; professional bono
Background: Melissa Ho is a trial legal professional with an in depth understanding of presidency rules and enterprise litigation. A former prosecutor, she is sympathetic to the disruption and chaos a authorities inquiry and legal investigation could cause. Ho defends particular person purchasers towards all kinds of legal allegations, together with well being care fraud, qui tam, RICO violations, financial institution fraud, actual property fraud, mortgage fraud, international corrupt practices, securities fraud, water and air high quality violations, authorities corruption, procurement and public fraud, skilled misconduct, civil and legal forfeiture, licensing violations, parallel proceedings, and laptop crimes.
Contact: mho@polsinelli.com
Donald W. Hudspeth
Principal legal professional | Legislation Workplaces of Donald W. Hudspeth
Apply areas: Company and enterprise regulation
Background: Hudspeth has greater than 25 years’ expertise training enterprise regulation and company litigation. Earlier than attending regulation college, Hudspeth held a inventory dealer’s license on the age of 21 and owned his personal companies on the age of 23 till he went to regulation college on the age of 36. Hudspeth has printed two books on regulation, “Contained in the Agency, The Inside Story of Selecting and Utilizing a Lawyer” and “Legislation on the Edge: Intercourse and the Structure.”
Private qualities wanted in regulation: “The Chinese language have a saying: ‘He who can’t smile mustn’t personal a store.” Getting together with individuals is crucial. Folks love to do enterprise with somebody they like.”
Contact: don@azbuslaw.com
H. Hughes Grehan
Companion | Jones Walker
Apply areas: Business issues and contracts, and industrial and company finance transactions
Andrew F. Halaby
Companion | Snell & Wilmer
Apply areas: Mental property and know-how litigation, mental property and know-how, industrial litigation, skilled licensure
Diane M. Haller
Companion | Quarles & Brady
Apply areas: Actual property, extremely complicated transactions, land growth offers, and portfolio transactions
Mark Horne
Companion | Degnan Legislation Group
Apply areas: Litigation concerning actual property and medical malpractice in addition to appeals
Susanne Ingold
Shareholder | Burch & Cracchiolo
Apply areas: Employment regulation and litigation; and problems with office discrimination, employer insurance policies, worker self-discipline and termination, and compliance with state and federal labor and employment legal guidelines
Background: Ingold, one among Az Enterprise journal’s Most Influential Ladies of 2019, often represents purchasers earlier than the Equal Employment Alternative Fee and in complicated litigation issues in state and federal court docket. An skilled litigator and trial lawyer, she has efficiently defended firms, companies, employers, executives and administration in jury trials all through Arizona’s state and federal courts. Ingold additionally practices on the whole legal responsibility protection and building litigation and serves as co-chair of the agency’s Building Defect-Common Legal responsibility Apply Group. She has served as lead counsel for industrial and building trade purchasers in multi-million greenback litigation issues, together with builders, basic contractors, subcontractors and insurers.
Contact: singold@bcattorneys.com
Norma C. Izzo
Chair, Household Legislation and Home Relations | Jennings Strouss & Salmon
Apply areas: Household regulation and home relations, pre/post-nuptial agreements, co-habitation agreements and home partnerships, adoptions and guardianships, asset division, collaborative divorce
Background: Izzo concentrates her observe within the space of household regulation and home relations issues, together with complicated litigation and asset division, enterprise dissolution, collaborative divorce, mediation, arbitration, dad or mum coordination, little one custody, little one assist, and spousal upkeep. She perceives training within the space of household regulation as a 3 dimensional expertise: authorized, monetary and emotional. Izzo serves as a parenting coordinator and mediator for household regulation issues of all ranges of complexity. She has served as previous president of the Maricopa County Bar Affiliation and president of the Affiliation of Household and Conciliation Courts – Arizona Chapter.
Contact: norma@jsslaw.com
Todd S. Kartchner
Director | Fennemore Craig
Apply areas: Common and complicated enterprise litigation
David C. Kresin
Managing associate | Robaina & Kresin
Apply areas: Employment litigation issues together with discrimination, retaliation, medical go away denial, restrictive covenant enforcement, unpaid compensation disputes, and wage and hour violations
John C. Lemaster
Shareholder | Ryley Carlock & Applewhite
Apply areas: Business litigation, managing and attempting complicated circumstances
Tamalyn E. Lewis
Shareholder | Engelman Berger
Apply areas: Chapter and reorganization, collectors’ rights, industrial landlord tenant regulation, mortgage exercises, enterprise and monetary restructuring, actual property, mortgage documentation
Amy L. Lieberman
Founder | Perception Employment Mediation and Perception Mediation Group
Apply areas: Arbitration and mediation
Laura A. Lo Bianco
Companion | Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie
Apply areas: Company regulation and transactional issues
Rachel Love
Companion | Struck Love Bojanowski & Acedo
Apply areas: Corrections protection, authorities legal responsibility protection, class motion and complicated litigation, civil litigation protection, insurance coverage protection
Patrick MacQueen
Founder and associate | MacQueen & Gottlieb
Apply areas: Actual property transactional regulation and actual property litigation
William J. Maledon
Companion | Osborn Maledon
Apply areas: Different dispute decision and mediation, antitrust and commerce regulation counseling, antitrust and commerce regulation litigation, appellate, industrial litigation, mental property litigation, securities protection, sports activities regulation, state and native administrative regulation
Background: Maledon is acknowledged as one of many main industrial litigation and trial attorneys in Arizona and within the nation. He has intensive expertise in each federal and state courts in all kinds of circumstances in Arizona and all through the nation, together with antitrust and commerce regulation, product legal responsibility, insurance coverage protection and insurance coverage unhealthy religion, class actions, securities, sports activities, and numerous different complicated industrial circumstances. He additionally has intensive expertise in dealing with appellate issues in each federal and state courts and he additionally has acted as mediator in quite a few vital circumstances.
Contact: wmaledon@omlaw.com
Nicole Maroulakos Goodwin
Managing shareholder | Greenberg Traurig
Apply areas: Company governance disputes, monetary companies litigation, actual property litigation, post-acquisition disputes, well being care litigation, and franchise litigation
Susan J. Martin
Companion | Martin & Bonnett
Apply areas: Labor and employment class actions and particular person case
Michelle Matheson
Managing associate | Matheson & Matheson
Apply areas: Employment regulation, represents administration and employers, office investigations and coaching, insurance coverage regulation
Paul J. McGoldrick
Legal professional and proprietor | Shorall McGoldrick Brinkmann
Apply areas: Private damage circumstances and has expertise as lead counsel in complicated enterprise disputes
Christopher J. Meister
Workplace managing shareholder | Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart
Apply areas: Employment regulation, conventional labor relations
Alexandra Mijares Nash
Companion | Mijares Nash
Apply areas: Represents firms and people in all kinds of legal and civil issues
Tracy A. Miller
Shareholder | Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart
Apply areas: Represents administration in all aspects of labor and employment regulation and civil rights
Jason B. Morris
Companion | Withey Morris
Apply areas: Land use, planning, zoning, and administrative regulation
Mark Nadeau
Co-managing associate, Phoenix workplace | DLA Piper
Apply areas: Tv, aviation, actual property hospitality, vitality, commerce secret and unfair enterprise observe issues
Randy Nussbaum
Legal professional | Sacks Tierney
Apply areas: Chapter, debtor and creditor rights, trustee illustration, industrial litigation, actual property regulation, building litigation
Shawn Oller
Workplace managing shareholder | Littler
Apply areas: Represents administration and corporations in all points of employment litigation arbitration and mediation
Gerard R. O’ Meara
Companion | Gust Rosenfeld
Apply areas: Civil litigation, insurance coverage protection regulation, actual property, company and industrial transactions, probates, wills and trusts
Contact: gustlaw.com
Kristy L. Peters
Shareholder | Littler Mendelson
Apply areas: Labor and employment issues arising underneath federal and state legal guidelines
Steven D. Pidgeon
Co-managing associate | DLA Piper
Apply areas: Mergers and acquisitions, capital markets and basic company
Frank M. Placenti
Senior associate | Squire Patton Boggs
Apply areas: Company governance and mergers and acquisitions
Pamela Overton Risoleo
Shareholder | Greenberg Traurig
Apply areas: Product legal responsibility, pharmaceutical and medical system litigation, industrial litigation, enterprise torts, breach of contract, cyber and knowledge breach litigation, eminent area
Scott I. Palumbo
Founding associate | Palumbo Wolfe & Palumbo
Apply areas: Defending the rights of private damage victims and people who have misplaced family members to wrongful demise
Background: Palumbo is a trial lawyer devoted to defending those that have been victimized by critical private damage accidents and people who have misplaced family members to wrongful demise.
Supply of satisfaction: “I represented a younger man who was terribly mind injured in a crash. We went to trial and obtained a verdict on his behalf. The funds from that verdict have been used for remedy and rehabilitation. I’m very pleased to report that 10 years later, that younger man is now a contented grownup dwelling a a lot better life. To know that we performed a big half in his restoration could be very rewarding.”
Contact: spalumbo@palumbowolfe.com
Susan Plimpton Segal
Companion | Gust Rosenfeld
Apply areas: Public regulation, municipal regulation, training regulation, employment regulation
Contact: gustlaw.com
Stephanie Quincy
Shareholder | Greenberg Traurig
Apply areas: Labor and employment, commerce secrets and techniques and unfair competitors, monetary establishments litigation, commerce secrets and techniques
Cynthia A. Ricketts
Founding associate | Sacks Ricketts & Case
Apply areas: Advanced contract and industrial litigation, shopper class motion protection
Background: In her 30 years of observe, Ricketts has dealt with greater than 200 numerous complicated contract and consumer-related issues. Previous to founding Sacks, Ricketts & Case, Ricketts was probably the most senior lady associate within the Phoenix workplace of DLA Piper, the most important international regulation agency. Ricketts is a acknowledged NITA teacher who has taught each trial and deposition expertise.
Attraction to trade: “The authorized trade is a mecca for fixed studying — each of industries and authorized points. Most shocking are the dearth of ladies in management positions and the variety of gifted ladies legal professionals who go away the occupation. That is significantly shocking as a result of 53 % of my ASU regulation college class have been ladies.”
Contact: cricketts@srclaw.com
David B. Rosenbaum
Companion | Osborn Maledon
Apply areas: Advanced industrial litigation in state and federal courts
Background: David B. Rosenbaum’s observe focuses on complicated industrial litigation within the state and federal courts. He has represented public firms and their officers and administrators in quite a few securities fraud class actions, represented Fortune 50 firms in a variety of complicated industrial litigation issues, together with issues involving mental property disputes, represented a serious telecommunications firm in an array of economic litigation issues, represented firms in gross sales and use tax disputes, and represented nationwide and native firms in employment controversies, together with class-action discrimination lawsuits. As previous president of the Federal Bar Affiliation and Lawyer Consultant to the Ninth Circuit Judicial Convention, Rosenbaum has developed information and expertise within the finer factors of prosecuting complicated litigation within the federal courts.
Contact: drosenbaum@omlaw.com
Paul J. Roshka, Jr.
Shareholder | Polsinelli
Apply areas: Monetary regulatory enforcement; monetary and securities litigation; monetary know-how (FinTech) and regulation; authorities investigations; inner investigations; company administrators and officers legal responsibility litigation; class motion and multidistrict litigation; industrial litigation; litigation and dispute decision
Background: Recognized for his thorough preparation and persistence, Paul Roshka has a nationwide observe representing firms, their administrators, officers, and workers throughout investigations and enforcement/disciplinary proceedings involving potential violations of the federal and state securities legal guidelines, and different monetary regulatory statutes and guidelines. He has dealt with issues initiated by nearly each SEC regional workplace and FINRA district workplace, and their dwelling workplaces in Washington, D.C. He’s additionally a acknowledged bet-the-company litigator. Roshka has defended securities/monetary claims in federal and state court docket, together with class motion protection.
Contact: proshka@polsinelli.com
Brian J. Schulman
Head of Litigation Group | Weiss Brown
Apply areas: Securities litigation and regulatory compliance, monetary companies litigation and regulatory compliance, actual property litigation, franchise regulation, Indian regulation
Bradley D. Shwer
Co-founding associate | Thorpe Shwer
Apply areas: Enterprise and industrial litigation, private damage torts, and merchandise legal responsibility
Gena L. Sluga
Shareholder | Christian Dichter & Sluga
Apply areas: Insurance coverage protection evaluation
Wendi A. Sorensen
Shareholder | Burch & Cracchiolo
Apply areas: Private damage and wrongful demise litigation, mediation and arbitration
Background: Sorensen is an Arizona State Bar training legal professional and mediator who’s a licensed specialist in private damage and wrongful demise regulation and has been training for greater than 30 years. She makes a speciality of complicated and catastrophic damage claims together with these involving trucking regulation, worksite accidents, merchandise legal responsibility, skilled legal responsibility and insurance coverage protection. In her rising mediation observe, she provides an efficient strategy that’s each logically predictive of the eventual consequence at trial and on the similar time compassionate to the claimant, permitting him his “day in court docket” at a fraction of the price. Sorensen additionally serves as a Choose Professional Tem and as a member of the Government Board of the American Board of Trial Advocates.
Contact: wsorensen@bcattorneys.com
Dana Stagg Belknap
Shareholder | Gallagher & Kennedy
Apply areas: Land use, actual property growth and governmental affairs
Background: Stagg Belknap practices within the areas of land use, actual property growth and governmental affairs. She has represented numerous regional and nationwide builders and landowners within the planning and growth of mixed-use, master-planned communities by aiding in a broad vary of points, together with grasp planning and land use entitlements, negotiating annexations and growth agreements, and advising on archaeological points, infrastructure financing and growth, evaluation of water rights, and environmental protections. She is expert on the illustration of economic builders in negotiating financial incentive agreements with municipalities and within the illustration of builders within the lease and buy of State Belief Land.
Contact: dsb@gknet.com
Christopher D. Thomas
Companion | Perkins Coie
Apply areas: Environmental and pure useful resource allowing and associated federal, state and administrative litigation
William L. Thorpe
Co-founding associate | Thorpe Shwer
Apply areas: Represents each giant and small enterprises in complicated industrial and tort issues
E. Jeffrey Walsh
Shareholder, industrial litigation | Greenberg Traurig
Apply areas: Business litigation, building regulation, actual property litigation, trial observe, arbitration and mediation
Paul M. Weiser
Managing shareholder, Arizona workplace | Buchalter
Apply areas: Business actual property
Background: Weiser’s observe encompasses all points of economic landlord/tenant regulation, from doc preparation, negotiation and interpretation to coping with such points as defaulting and bankrupt tenants, brokerage disputes, building associated issues and the day-to-day points dealing with workplace, retail, industrial and medical house owners and property managers.
Private strengths: “Being organized, and pushed by the will to assist others navigate the difficult world of economic actual property. Being organized is important to the preparation of authorized paperwork, no matter their complexity. The will to assist others is a much better driving pressure than the will for wealth or fame.”
Contact: pweiser@buchalter.com
Dennis Wilenchik
Member and supervisor | Wilenchik & Bartness
Apply areas: Advanced civil litigation, enterprise and actual property regulation, contract and enterprise disputes, legal regulation, civil and legal appeals
Background: Wilenchik is a civil litigation legal professional training greater than 40 years in enterprise and actual property litigation. He’s a licensed civil trial advocate by the Nationwide Board of Trial Advocacy and previous chairman of the State Bar Civil Trial Apply Part. Wilenchik is rated AV Preeminent by Martindale Hubbell. Wilenchik is an Arizona Bar Basis Fellow and was elected a Fellow to the American Board of Skilled Legal responsibility Attorneys.
Attraction to trade: “I used to be drawn to the concept of serving to others to realize easy justice, and that’s really why I grew to become a lawyer.”
Contact: DIW@wb-law.com
Nancy Williams Bonnett
Legal professional and shareholder | Pietzsch, Bonnett & Womack
Apply areas: Worker advantages and govt compensation
Michael B. Withey
Companion | Withey Morris
Apply areas: Handles bigger, difficult re-zonings; negotiates the differing growth and re-development agreements with municipalities and counties all through Arizona
Charles W. Wirken
Companion | Gust Rosenfeld
Apply areas: Different dispute decision, appellate observe, industrial litigation, franchise litigation, actual property litigation
Contact: gustlaw.com
Susan M. Wissink
Director, administration committee member, chair of Fennemore Craig Basis | Fennemore Craig
Apply areas: Company and mergers and acquisitions
